Bar or tack for boots or shoes



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BAR 0R TACK FOR BOOTS 0R SHOES, 6w.

Patented May 7, 1895.

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PATENT ALFRED E. BURK, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO THE PHILADELPHIA BARRING MACHINE COMPANY, OF CAMDEN,

NEW JERSEY.

BAR OR TACK FOR BOOTS OR SHOES, 8M3.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 538,893, dated May '7, 1 895.

Application filed January 17,1895. Serial No. 536,219- (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: I

Be it known that I, ALFRED E. BURK, acitizen of the United States, residing in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, have invented certain Improvements in Bars or Tacks for Boots, Shoes, 850., of which the following is a specification.

My invention consists of an improved tack or bar for fastening the meeting or overlapping portions of boots, shoes,'harness, &c., the bar being especially intended for use in cases where the leather of which the article is composed has a hard polished or glazed surface, such as what is known as patent leather, and the object of my invention being to so form the bar or tack that the polished or glazed surface will not be mutilated by the stitches composing the bar.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is aview of part of a shoe-upper, showing my improved form-of bar. Fig. 2 is an enlarged sectional View of the same, and Figs. 3 and 4 are like views of modified forms of the tack or bar.

A A represent two parts of a shoe upper, each part having a folded .edge overlapping the under flap or tongue A as shown in Fig. 2, these overlapping portions being secured by means of a bar or tack consisting of a number of longitudinal stitches a, and anumber of short transverse stitches 1) formed oversaid stitches a.

The usual form of bar or tack having the cross stitches extending from end to end of the same is inadmissible in cases where the leather has a hard polished or glazed surface,

and yet will not mutilate the surface of the leather, at the point where the latter overlaps the glazed surface of the leather is free from mutilation due to the formation of openings for the reception of the cross stitches and the sightliness of the article is not thereby impaired.

Having thus described my invention, I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. The combination of two portions of a shoe or like article of manufacture, one portion overlapping the other, with a bar or tack consisting of longitudinal stitches crossing the overlapped portion and having cross stitches bunched at a point between the ends of the long stitches and beyond but close to the edge of the overlapping part, substantially as specified.

2. The combination of the under tongue or flap and the opposite overlapping portions of a shoe upper or the like, with a bar or tack consisting of longitudinal stitches extendingfrom one overlapping portion to the other, and short cross stitches bunched at a point between the overlapping portions, substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of. two subscribing witnesses.

ALFRED E. BURK.

Witnesses:

WILL. A. BARR, K JOSEPH H. KLEIN. 

